Often academic departments have little knowledge about the course content that is presented by similar departments at other universities. This study aims to investigate the economics curricula offered by South African universities in order to contribute to the quality and content of the economics courses. International best practices with regard to the structure and content of, as well as the logistics behind an economics curriculum are identified, and the economics curricula offered by South African universities are compared to these international best practices. This study is attempted through gathering of available open source information as well as conducting a survey study to determine the status quo situation with regard to various issues relating to the economics curricula offered at South African universities. In terms of the structure of an economics curriculum, a benchmark tree structure is drawn from international best practices. To compare the structure of the economics curricula offered by the South African universities included in this study to international best practices, a tree structure of each university's curriculum is drafted in the same format as the benchmark tree structure. These tree structures are used to determine how each university's curriculum complies to international best practices. The textbooks that are used in a course are thought to be an indication of the content of that course. Therefore, the textbooks that are used by the different universities in each course are indicated in this study. With regard to the logistical aspects of an economics curriculum, e.g. student/lecturer ratios, the actual situation at most universities differs substantially from international best practices. International best practices suggest class sizes of no more than 25 students. Student-lecturer ratios in economics courses offered by South African universities are far remote from this. / Thesis (M.Com. (International Commerce))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T16:16:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Karen de Azevedo Fernandes.pdf: 386868 bytes, checksum: e4759a7386ed6a86d52cf28b69e9ade2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-19 / The present paper aims to discuss the formative and professional trajectory of English teachers that are teaching for the third degree, making deeper reflections about the difficulties or the facilities between the graduation and the beginning of the carrier as a teacher. Besides the carrying out of content s analyses got through the interviews, also the theoretical research was important to search a little bit about the history of the language teaching here in Brazil, as well as a study about the methods and approaches of English teaching so that we could analyse if the graduation of these professionals included or not the knowledge of these methods and if it was important not only for their formation but also for their acting in the class. Since my own experience as a private English teacher with difficulties during the teaching process, mainly due to my bad formation, I ve searched for some answers with these more experienced teachers that can contribute with the future English teachers to be more well formed and prepared to overcome the first difficulties of the carrier as well as to help them to reduce it , in some way so that they can teach with more confidence and competence, even because they are forming and preparing other teachers.(AU) / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo discutir sobre as trajetórias formativas e profissionais de professores de inglês do ensino superior, aprofundando as reflexões acerca das dificuldades ou facilidades entre a formação e o início da prática docente. Além da realização da análise de conteúdo dos dados das entrevistas, a pesquisa teórica também se fez importante no intuito de buscar um pouco da história do ensino da língua inglesa no Brasil, bem como um estudo sobre os métodos e abordagens do ensino de inglês, a fim de que se pudesse analisar se a formação desses profissionais incluiu ou não o conhecimento dos mesmos e até que ponto foi ou não importante não só para sua formação como também para sua atuação em sala de aula. A partir de minha própria experiência co mo professora particular de inglês, com dificuldades de atuação, principalmente devido a uma má formação, busquei algumas respostas com estes docentes mais experientes que pudessem contribuir de algum modo para que os futuros professores de inglês sejam mais bem formados e preparados para superarem as dificuldades inicias da carreira bem como para que consigam reduzi-las, podendo assim exercer sua profissão com mais segurança e competência, já que também vão formar e preparar outros professores.(AU)

Submitted by Marineide De Oliveira Da Silva (mari.oliveirasil@gmail.com) on 2018-05-19T00:06:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Marineide de Oliveira da Silva- UNESP.pdf: 8895218 bytes, checksum: 21b52eacb21ce3820b0a1c2acd67eea7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Santulo Custódio de Medeiros null (asantulo@rc.unesp.br) on 2018-05-21T14:07:58Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_mo_dr_rcla.pdf: 8882039 bytes, checksum: 1047267c88227c480996158cfca37444 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-21T14:07:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_mo_dr_rcla.pdf: 8882039 bytes, checksum: 1047267c88227c480996158cfca37444 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-06 / A escola rural em Mato Grosso é um objeto de estudo que oferta ao pesquisador possibilidades de análise em diferentes momentos históricos. Para cada período, tendo por base a conjuntura social em que a mesma se encontra atrelada, marca mudanças e posturas educacionais que somente analisando “o não aparente” e o processo em que culminaram os acontecimentos podem-se formular hipóteses e buscar respostas paras as indagações que se apresentam durante o percurso da pesquisa. Entender esse fato foi crucial para a elaboração desta pesquisa. O presente trabalho tem como centralidade analisar a constituição do educador leigo/a e as mudanças de paisagem que inculcaram neles a necessidade de passarem por um processo de recuperação para estar qualificados a ser docentes nas escolas rurais de Mato Grosso. O cenário da pesquisa é o estado de Mato Grosso (uno) e abarca um período de mudanças que começaram a ser desenhadas na década de 1940, com o caminhar para a finalização do Estado Novo, momento ainda encabeçado pelo grupo getulista, e tendo como baliza final na década de 1960, período em que foram implementadas no país as reformas educacionais que visou recuperar um contingente significativos de professores sem formação para o magistério e que ministravam aulas nas escolas primárias de todo Brasil. Objetivando também demonstrar como a educação primária se configurou, bem como a maneira como a escola rural atravessou esse período. Para fundamentar essa tese, foram consultados autores como Adorno (1995), Mészáros (2008), Biesta (2013), Sá (2006), Paes (2011), entre outros, que propõem pensar a sociedade, a escola e a educação enquanto um conjunto de fatores que podem estar atrelados a questões econômicas, interferindo de maneira significativa na concepção de educação e na percepção dos sujeitos inseridos na sociedade. Para refletir sobre o fazer histórico e o trato com as fontes documentais e orais, buscou-se suporte nos escritos de Certeau (1982), Montenegro (2011), além de ter como mote de análise de dados o método cartográfico, apresentado por Guattari e Rolnik (1996), Passos, Kastrup e Escóssia (2015), ao conceberem que a realidade cartografada não se configura, para o investigador, como uma paisagem que delineia contornos estáticos, mas que estes mudam conforme as pistas encontradas no processo de pesquisa, tornando “o aparente” como objeto imbuído de significações. Por isso, a “Análise do Discurso” se torna importante no processo, pois contribui para desvelar o aparente ligado às conjunturas educacionais primárias mato-grossenses. Acredita-se que falar de escola rural e professor/a leigo/a é trazer à cena personagens fundamentais no processo educativo de Mato Grosso, cujas vozes são, muitas vezes, silenciadas para não denunciar as fragilidades e inconsistências dos discursos políticos de dominação. / The rural school in Mato Grosso is a study of object that offering the searcher possibilities of analysis at different historical moments. To each period, based on the social context that find in the same harness, trace changes and educational positions that only analyzing "no apparent" and the process that was the highest events you can formulate hyphotheses and get answers to the reasons that arise during the course of the search. To understanding this fact, it was crucial for the elaboration of this search. The present work have been to centrality to analyze the constitution of lay educator and changes representetion have mark them a necessity to pass for a recovery process to be qualified to be teachers in rural schools of Mato Grosso. The scene of the State of Mato Grosso (uno) covers a period of changes that started to be desingned in 1940, with the progress of the completion of the new state, in this moment formed by the getulista group, and having as end point the years of 1960, period that they were implemented in the country the educational reforms, which recovered a significant uncertain of teachers without training for the magisterium and that administer classes in primary schools from all over Brazil, evidencing how the primary education was configured, as well as the way the rural school cross this period. To ground this thesis, were consulted authors such as Adorno (1995), Mészáros (2008), Biesta (2013), Sá (2006) and Paes (2011) and others, which proposes to think about society, school and education while a conjuct of coefficient that may be harness the economic issues, interfering in a significant way in the conception of education and in the perception of the subjects inserted in the society. Thinking about doing the historical documentary and oral sources, it was support in the writings of Certeau (1982), Montenegro (2011), besides having how of data analysis the cartographic method presented by Guattari and Rolnik (1996), Passos, Kastrup and Escóssia (2015), when realizing that the reality was charted it's not configured, to the investigator, like a representetion that adumbrate static contours, but that these change according to the clues found in the process of search, making "the apparent" like an object impregnate with meanings. For this reason, the "Discourse Analysis" be the most important in the process, contributes to unveil the apparent educational primary in Mato Grosso. Come to believe saying about the rural school and teacher lay person to bring the scene fundamental characters in the educational process of Mato Grosso, whose voices are often silenced not to denounce the fragility and inconsistencies of political discourses of domination.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:47:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leidne_Sylse_Mello_Carreno_Dissertacao.pdf: 619231 bytes, checksum: 5cd1975d8e98df8f174712c29c431442 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-11 / This study aims to consider and discuss the need for pedagogical training for university teachers based on the expressions of a group of teachers who work at the Federal University of Pelotas. The line of though used looks upon the perceptions of the interviewees about their education and the challenges they face in teaching. Considering that there is reasonable consensus that to be a university professor is suffices to dominate the knowledge of their area and little appreciation is given to the nature of pedagogical knowledge. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews applied to a sample of six teachers from the courses of Architecture and Urbanism and from Dentistry. The results were analyzed in the light of the theoretical Zabalza (2004), Marcelo Garcia (1999), Cunha (2000, 2004 ), Masetto, (1998, 2009), , Pimenta and Anastasiou (2002), among others. The results helped us to understand that even if the professionals working in higher education are trained in Master and/or PhD, they are still unprepared to face the complexity of teaching. We also realize that these professionals become teachers and still need some time before identifying themselves as a "teacher" / O presente estudo teve como objetivo refletir e discutir a necessidade de formação pedagógica de docentes universitários a partir das expressões de um grupo de professores que atuam na Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Percorreu-se o caminho da pesquisa lançando-se um olhar sobre as expressões dos entrevistados a respeito de sua formação e os desafios que enfrentam para ensinar. Partimos do pressuposto que há razoável consenso de que para ser professor universitário é suficiente o domínio dos conhecimentos de sua área específica e pouca valorização é dada aos conhecimentos de cunho pedagógico. Os dados foram obtidos através de entrevistas semi estruturadas aplicadas a uma amostra de seis (6) professores dos cursos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo e de Odontologia. As respostas foram analisadas à luz do referencial teórico de Zabalza (2004); Marcelo Garcia (1999); Cunha (2000, 2004); Masetto, (1998, 2009); Pimenta e Anastasiou (2002), dentre outros. Os resultados nos ajudaram a entender que mesmo que os profissionais atuantes no ensino superior tenham formação em Cursos de Mestrado e/ou Doutorado, eles estão pouco preparados para enfrentarem a complexidade da docência. Percebemos também que esses profissionais tornam-se professores e precisam de um tempo de docência para identificarem-se como professor

The aim of this thesis is the analysis of communication in private tutoring of the Czech language (especially the analysis of communication of lecturers). The analysis is based on five recordings of private tutoring. The thesis in the theoretical part summarizes the existing knowledge about private tutoring and about communication in school, such as verbal and nonverbal communication of teachers and of students or typical communication structure used in school education. In the practical part, the thesis analyzes the communication in private tutoring in the Czech language based on recordings of lecturers and their students visiting the second primary school level or similar years of multi-year grammar school. The thesis according to the analyzed material describes verbal and nonverbal communication of lecturers and students in private tutoring, then focuses on communication structure in private tutoring, i. e. questions of lecturers, student answers and feedback of lecturers. Knowledge about communication in private tutoring is then compared with communication in school. In the end, the thesis focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of online form of private tutoring based on analyzed recordings and interviews with lecturers.

The diploma thesis focuses on the specific character of the general interest education, it also deals with a history of children's and youth's homes. It will concentrate mainly on teaching the flute playing with the main aim to find out the forms and methods of the teaching. The thesis includes also a questionnaire survey focusing on the organization of the Prague's DDMs. Senior teaching staff and lecturers will be addressed in order to find out the current status and professional level of teaching the musical instruments. A proposal of my own procedure (annual plan, methodology, teaching material) will be introduced in the practical part. KEYWORDS Recorder, DDM, textbook, leisure, history DDM, lecturer

The widening of access to Higher Education (HE) with a concomitant call for more accountability in the HE sector locally and globally, has altered the former elitist status of the university and impacted the professional standing, autonomy, and working conditions of lecturers negatively. Lecturers are increasingly held to account for providing quality teaching and delivering employable graduates. Yet their work environment has been characterised by poor support, dwindling resources, lack of recognition and reward for teaching efforts and excellence, and absence of legal protection when failing to fulfil the undefined yet high accountability expectations in their teaching-related work. This state of affairs has had an inevitable influence on lecturers’ perceived security in their labour environment. The overarching purpose of this study was therefore to generate guidelines to improve the existing juridical foundation for accountability of South African (SA) HE lecturers with a view to enhance their security in their employment context. In order to assist in the fulfilment of this central purpose, the study aimed to develop understanding of how lecturers perceive their accountability and security in light of diverse teaching-related responsibilities and vagueness in terms of expected conduct; and the protection (or lack of protection) of their rights and professional status. An international perspective on these issues was imperative to shed some light on how regulation elsewhere could improve practices in the SA context. While SA lecturers are equally entitled to all the rights stipulated in the Bill of Rights, they are also subject to and accountable for upholding the provisions of the SA Constitution and derived labour legislation relevant within the HE environment. The founding values of the Constitution, namely equality, human dignity and the protection of human rights and related freedoms, form not only the basic standard for measuring lecturer conduct, but also the legal basis for challenging policy, system or conduct that might threaten constitutional or labour rights. Yet, despite the existing juridical foundation for the regulation of accountability and rights protection of SA lecturers, comprising the SA Constitution, general labour and HE legislation, there is an absence of HE-specific teaching-related accountability regulation, resulting in lecturer insecurity regarding expected conduct, professional recognition and support, and accountability expectations in their teaching-related work. In comparison, a number of Australian legal imperatives, including the Commonwealth of Australia Learning and Teaching Council’s standard for quality teaching with corresponding quality indicators, provide for more clearly defined teaching-related accountability regulation. In addition, the Mission Based Compacts, the Threshold Standards, and the national Modern Award for the Higher Education Industry, afford Australian lecturers the protection of HE-specific rights relevant to enhance security in their unique work environment. These legal imperatives proved to be significant for informing the improved juridical foundation for lecturer teaching-related accountability in the SA context to enhance the security of the SA lecturer. With a focus on the development of in-depth understanding of the phenomena of lecturer accountability and security via the perspectives and interpretations of lecturers themselves, the empirical study was grounded in an inductive qualitative methodology from an interpretive-phenomenological perspective. To ensure richness of descriptive data, lecturers actively involved in undergraduate teaching at three different local, and one Australian university, were purposively selected to participate in semi-structured individual and focus group interviews. The analysis and interpretation of the interview data included a comparative component to explore perceptions of lecturer accountability regulation and security protection in an Australian context with a view to identify inadequate legal provisioning for these phenomena in the SA HE environment. From the data analysis and interpretation, seven meaningful themes were identified, associated with either lecturer accountability or lecturer security. The findings offered not only a clear delineation of internal and external lecturer teaching-related accountability, but also a comprehensive definition of lecturer professional security that was found wanting in all legal sources and other literature studied for this thesis. Moreover, in realisation of the primary aim of this study, twelve significant guidelines are presented to establish an improved juridical foundation for lecturer accountability that will enhance lecturer security in the SA Higher Education context. Amongst these are: the development of a clear delineation of teaching-related roles and responsibilities articulated for different academic post levels; the establishment of a professional HE teaching-oriented career path affording professional recognition via a professional body for lecturers, and requiring continuous professional teaching development; and the development of minimum conditions of employment unique to the work of the HE lecturer. / PhD (Education Law), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

The widening of access to Higher Education (HE) with a concomitant call for more accountability in the HE sector locally and globally, has altered the former elitist status of the university and impacted the professional standing, autonomy, and working conditions of lecturers negatively. Lecturers are increasingly held to account for providing quality teaching and delivering employable graduates. Yet their work environment has been characterised by poor support, dwindling resources, lack of recognition and reward for teaching efforts and excellence, and absence of legal protection when failing to fulfil the undefined yet high accountability expectations in their teaching-related work. This state of affairs has had an inevitable influence on lecturers’ perceived security in their labour environment. The overarching purpose of this study was therefore to generate guidelines to improve the existing juridical foundation for accountability of South African (SA) HE lecturers with a view to enhance their security in their employment context. In order to assist in the fulfilment of this central purpose, the study aimed to develop understanding of how lecturers perceive their accountability and security in light of diverse teaching-related responsibilities and vagueness in terms of expected conduct; and the protection (or lack of protection) of their rights and professional status. An international perspective on these issues was imperative to shed some light on how regulation elsewhere could improve practices in the SA context. While SA lecturers are equally entitled to all the rights stipulated in the Bill of Rights, they are also subject to and accountable for upholding the provisions of the SA Constitution and derived labour legislation relevant within the HE environment. The founding values of the Constitution, namely equality, human dignity and the protection of human rights and related freedoms, form not only the basic standard for measuring lecturer conduct, but also the legal basis for challenging policy, system or conduct that might threaten constitutional or labour rights. Yet, despite the existing juridical foundation for the regulation of accountability and rights protection of SA lecturers, comprising the SA Constitution, general labour and HE legislation, there is an absence of HE-specific teaching-related accountability regulation, resulting in lecturer insecurity regarding expected conduct, professional recognition and support, and accountability expectations in their teaching-related work. In comparison, a number of Australian legal imperatives, including the Commonwealth of Australia Learning and Teaching Council’s standard for quality teaching with corresponding quality indicators, provide for more clearly defined teaching-related accountability regulation. In addition, the Mission Based Compacts, the Threshold Standards, and the national Modern Award for the Higher Education Industry, afford Australian lecturers the protection of HE-specific rights relevant to enhance security in their unique work environment. These legal imperatives proved to be significant for informing the improved juridical foundation for lecturer teaching-related accountability in the SA context to enhance the security of the SA lecturer. With a focus on the development of in-depth understanding of the phenomena of lecturer accountability and security via the perspectives and interpretations of lecturers themselves, the empirical study was grounded in an inductive qualitative methodology from an interpretive-phenomenological perspective. To ensure richness of descriptive data, lecturers actively involved in undergraduate teaching at three different local, and one Australian university, were purposively selected to participate in semi-structured individual and focus group interviews. The analysis and interpretation of the interview data included a comparative component to explore perceptions of lecturer accountability regulation and security protection in an Australian context with a view to identify inadequate legal provisioning for these phenomena in the SA HE environment. From the data analysis and interpretation, seven meaningful themes were identified, associated with either lecturer accountability or lecturer security. The findings offered not only a clear delineation of internal and external lecturer teaching-related accountability, but also a comprehensive definition of lecturer professional security that was found wanting in all legal sources and other literature studied for this thesis. Moreover, in realisation of the primary aim of this study, twelve significant guidelines are presented to establish an improved juridical foundation for lecturer accountability that will enhance lecturer security in the SA Higher Education context. Amongst these are: the development of a clear delineation of teaching-related roles and responsibilities articulated for different academic post levels; the establishment of a professional HE teaching-oriented career path affording professional recognition via a professional body for lecturers, and requiring continuous professional teaching development; and the development of minimum conditions of employment unique to the work of the HE lecturer. / PhD (Education Law), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

Meaningful learning requires active teaching and learning approaches. Thus, with a specific focus on Mathematics teaching at university in Oramia, the study aimed to: • examine the extent to which active learning/student-centered approaches were implemented; • assess the attitudes of university lecturers towards active-learning; • investigate whether appropriate training and support have been provided for the implementation of an active learning approaches • assess the major challenges that hinder the implementation of active learning approaches and • recommend ways that could advance the use of active learning approaches in Mathematics teaching at university. A mixed-methods design was used. Among the six universities in the Oromia Regional State of Ethiopia, two of the newly established universities (younger than 5 years) and two of the old universities (15 years and older) were involved in the study. A total of 84 lecturers participated in the study and completed questionnaires. This was complemented by a qualitative approach that used observation checklists and interviews for data gathering: 16 lessons were observed while the lecturers taught their mathematics classes (two lecturers from each of the four sample universities were twice observed). In addition, semi-structured interviews were conducted with four mathematics department heads and eight of the observed lecturers. The study adhered to ethical principles and to applied several techniques to enhance the validity/trustworthiness of the findings. / Psychology of Education / D. Ed. (Psychology of Education)

Dissertation / Psychology of Education / M.Ed. (Psychology of Education)